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THE AMERIOUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, JUNE 14. 1901.
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Amerlcus. L-a
MISNOMERS.
What’s in a name? Not much.
Names are employed to conceal names.
As the Brooklyn Eagle says: “Ihe
grammatical thief is not a thief, but a
kleptomaniac. The propertied drunk
ard is not a drunkard, but a victim of
nervous prostration. The preacher
who marries a rich wife, and leaves
the pulpit, is not a shirk, but a snffere r
from bronchitis. The lawyer who has,
too much money and too little ' bility
to practice in uourt is not a lawy i. .v
a member of the bar. The man who is
FOR HE HIMSELF
HATH SAID 11
President McKinley Makes i
Positive Statement,
NO THIRD TERM FOR HIE
Not Only M ill 111. Not lie a Candidate,
but lie Would .Not Accept Anothei
Nomination Kor the Presidency ir 1
"Vere Tendered Him.
Washington, June 11.—The followinj
That is what this sale offers to those who are suited with the splendid
Shoes that are marked at half price and less. This is a great lot of ladies i 0w
cut Shoes in almost every style made this season, but some of the cartoons are
soiled from handling, nothing more serious. Values are $1.50, $2.00
and $2 50, all in one big lot and priced for your choice at per pair y§C,
MARIE LOUISE MYRICK,
EDITOR AND BUSINESS! MANAGER
Editorial Room Telephone W.
The Times-Recorder is the
Official Organ ot the City of Amerlcus.
Official Organ of Sumter County.
Official Organ of Webster County -
Official Organ of Railroad Commission of
Georgia for tbe 3d Congressional District.
AUEBICUS. GA., JUNE 14, 1901.
McLaurin, being deprived of an ex
cuse to air bis views before tbe people
of South Carolina, threatens to start
a newspaper of bis own.
In sotting and distributing type a
compositor’s hand travels on an aver
age eloven miles a day. Leaving Sun
days and holidays ont of acconnt, this
means about fl.OLO milos a year.
Milan is adopting American and
English ideas in the matter of model
houses. A large hotel was recently
oomploted in Milan where good rooms
can be obtained at a cost of 7 cents per
day.
Why call an extra session? McKin
ley knows just what he would have
congress do if it were convened, so he
is fally competent to act on that know
ledge and save the country the expense
of an extra session.
Our hybrid government in the Phil
ippines is to consist of a civil governor
and a commanding general. By work
ing together and being both civil and
commanding they ought to make their
jobs worth considerable.
“Kind words aro tho music of the
world, "saul one of tho Amorican speak
ers at the London Chambor of Com
merce banquet. Tho phrase is not
fonnd among familiar provorbs,but de
serves to be given a place.
It is not easy to believo that the leg
islature intended to tax the farmers on
the fertilizers need in making their
crops. An opinion by tbe attorney
genernl to that effect is by no means
conclusive.—Sparta Ishmaelite.
A detective in sheep’s clothing has
bagged 42 citizens of WayeroBS for
gambling. Tho Auguasta Chronicle
thinks that having been in tbe games
with thorn, he will bo able to give
evidence of a convincing ebarater.
One of the recent society events in
New York was the marriago of Miss
Fill Potter to Jarnos Stillman Jr. Miss
Potter has boen her father’s specie!
care since his divorce from hor mother,
Mrs. James Brown Potter. M-. Still
man is the sou of the rich New Y’ork
banker.
The cotton acreage is said to have
been greatly increased this year, but
tbe hail and wind stems have cut
down tho promised crop very material
ly. Wo can expect all sorts of disasters
to cotton as long as it is planted to
the exclusion of moro remunerative
crops. -Valdosta Times.
It PAYS TO BE AMIABLE.
“What do you do," asked tho one
who had been married only a few
months, “when your husband comes
home late at night?"
“I protend not to notice that he isn’t
on time, and pretty soon he asks me
if I wouldn’t like to go to a rodf garden
or somewhero tomorrow afternoon.’’—
Chicago Record.
isusiut-.s at urtinsw ilk ivri.
Brunswick. Ua., June 12.—The fiscal
rear having far enough advanced for an
Intelligent idea to be gained as to tiie
port’s business, Henry T. Dunn, collec
tor of customs, announces that a decided
increase will be shown. He says that
there is a healthy condition in the for
eign export a. well as the coastwise
trade and that r.ii branches of the cus
tomhouse business wili stow up favora
bly this year.
‘connected with the press,’ but who
works on no sheet is n ‘journalist’ and
not a newspaper man. ’ The fellow,
without labor or income, who is never
poor so long as any one else is rich, is
not a tramp,but something a deal.more
contemptibile. The speculator, who
owns a marble quarry is not a sculptor.
The rich man who buys a newspaper is
not an editor. Tbe politician who fails
is not a statesman, and the one who
finds that he can no longer fool any
body is not a sage.” The list of the
misnames does not end here. The
man who never read a line] of, law'is
called Judge; the man who has not the
shadow of claim to the title is called
Captain, or Major, or Colonel, or Gen
eral; the man who was never an Hon
orable receives tbe prefix of Hon.; the
political echo is called a political lead
er; the corn trimmer is called doctor;
the accordcon player is called profess
or; the noisy talker of tommy-rot is
called an orator; the adventurer is call
ed a statesman ;the fake is called a good
citizen; the wealthy rascal is called a
Napoleon of finance — and so on. If
the people do not like to be humbug
ged why do they humbug themselves
and each other? So long as sham and
false pretense receive public indorse
ment instead of public ridicule, so
long will there be pretenders who seek
to pass for what they aro not.
lieports from all parts of Texas, In
dian Territory and Oklahoma, indi
cate that a larger area than over be
fore has been planted in cotton. This
increase is nearly all accounted for by
so much of the grain crops destroyed
by the aphis being replanted in cotton.
It is doubtful, however, whether tho
total acreage in cotton will or will not
bo greater than last year, as Hoods,late
seasons and shortage of seed have af
fected the area somewhat in M’ssis-
sippi and Alabama, and slightly in the
adjoining states. In ihe Southwest
cotton is generally in good condition
though much of it is late. Planting
was about finished last week. — Hous
ton Post.
An Iowa court has declrrc-d that it is
not only the privilege of tho news
paper to criticise theatrical perform
ances, but its duty to “roast" them
when they are not up to the degree of
excellence that they profess. The
court farther says that ridicule and
sarcasm may bo employed in such crit
icisms without liability for damages,
providing thoro is no malice or wick
ed purpose.
WOMAN
IS LIKE A DELICATE
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
In good condition she is sweet and lovablt,
and sings life’s song on a Joyful harmoniouj
string. Out of order or unstrung, there la
discordance a nd unhappiness. J ust as there
Is one key note to all music so there is one key
note to health. A woman might as well try
to fly without wings as to feel well and look
well while the organs that make her a woman
are weak or diseased. She must be healthy
Inside or she can’t be healthy outside. There
are thousands of women suffering silently all
over the country. Mistaken modesty urges
their silence. While there is nothing more
admirable than a modest woman, health is
of the first importance. Every other con
sideration should give way before it. Brad-
field’s Female Regulator is a medicine foi
women’s ills. It is
thesafestandquick-
est way to cure leu-
corrhea. falling of
thewemb, nervous
ness. headache,
backache and gen
eralweakness. You
will be astonished
at the result, es
pecially If you have
been experiment
ing with ether so-
called remedies.
V/e are not asking
you to try an uncer
tainty. Bradfield’s
Regulator hasmade
happy thousands of
women. What it
has done for others
It can do for you.
Sold in drug stores
for $1 a buttle.
A fr« IU««’rated
tu kh * i.u w rit.
statement has been given out at tin
White House:
“I regret that the suggestion of i
third term has been made. I doub
whether I am called upon to give it no
tice. But there are now questions oi
the gravest importance before the ad
ministration and the country and then
just consideration should not be preju
diced in the public mind by even thi
suspicion of the thought of a third term.
In view, therefore, of the reiteration oi
the suggestion of it, I will say now,
onco for all, expressing a long cettled
conviction, that I not only am not and
will not be a candidate for a third term,
but would not accept a nomination foi
it if it were tendered me.
“My ambition is to serve through mj
second term to the acceptance of my
countrymen, whose generous confident
I so deeply appreciate, and then with
them to do my duty in the ranks of pri
vate citizenship.
(Signed) “William McKinley,
“Executive Mansion, Washington,
June 10, 1901."
THIRD PRESIDENTIAL TERM.
Speaker Henderson Expresses Hil
Views on the Question.
New York. Juno 11.—Hon. D. B.
Henderson, speaker of the house of rep
resentatives, is quoted by the Paris cor«
respondent of The Journal on the third
presidential term as follows:
“Regarding the third term, I will say
first that I am opposed to it as a rule.
“Secondly, there may arise conditions
demanding it, and therefore tho hand!
of the country should not be tied up.
“Thirdly, as to President McKinley,
tho time has not arrived for discussing
a third term. Continuity in office might
dull tho minus of the people and pre
vent them from perceiving the differ
ence between election and life tenure.
“After 12 years in office, even people
cursed with dullness will ask: ‘Quo
Vadis?’
••The people invariably rectify oui
teudeucy to error."
HEADACHE
two day*, she tried some of yourCASCARETS,
and they relieved the pain In her head almost
Immediately. Wo both recommend Cascarets."
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THE VALUE OF LANDS.
Land will uover be permanently
cheaper than it is now. In times of
financial distress, which visit us occa
sionally in spite of all men may do to
prevent it, it is possible that some of
the distressed may sell out compara
tively cheap. But panics, like periods
of prosperity, do uot last forever, and
productive lands are certain to grow
dearer than before. The products of
the soil feed the world, and tfie world
must be fed regardless of commercial
conditions and it takes very nearly as
much to feed men in bad as in good
times. Taoro is uo other resource for
subsistence and the earth’s population
is encroaching on its arable area with
startling rapidity. For these reasons
land values must be affected by panics
less than any form of unproductive
property. Farming land must be a
good investment, as long as population
increases. Fifty dollars per acre has
an extravagant sound to those who
have bought or sold as good for one or
two dollars, but when we consider that
the crops grown on an acre in one year
often sell for more than 8-50 nud even
staple field crops often bring one-half
the cost of the laud in a year, we ean-
; uot fail to sec that good farmiug land
is not dear at present prices. We be
lieve that money put into farming land
| is the safest investment that can be
| wade, and all the better if it is pur
chased for actual use, and is actually
used Probably prices will be 100 per
ceut. higher within twenty years, as
it is HK) per cent, higher now than it
was twenty years ago. The time will
come when those who want land will
wish they had bought when it could be
had at from §10 to Sot) rer acre —Texas
Farm and Bauch.
Madras Cloths Underpriced, 5 34c yd.
We oll'er for this sale 1,000 yards 36-ineh
Madras cloths in patterns, suitable for men’s shirts
and children's dresses, at almost the price you
would expect to pay for ccalieo. They are fresh
and perfect goods; nothing wrong with them only
the time has come for their departue. The price is
5Je instead of 124c.
All-Over Lace.
Dainty Laces—new patterns of course—for ap
preciative womeu, at reductions of a third and a
half that will send them flying.
At 25c yard. Five patterns all-over Laees,
fancy designs, full widths, reduced from 45c.
At 35c yard—Six patterns all-over Laces, new
designs, reduced from 50c; others in proportion,
75c ones are now 50c, si.00 ones are now 75c, 81.25
ones arc now 85c.
Men’s Madras Shirts at $i.oo.
Many particular men wouldn’t think it worth
worth while to look at shirts that cost less than a
dollar and a half; most men in Amcricus know the
kind of white shirts we sell for a dollar. Now the
same manufacturer gives us the same superb and
unmatched value in a DOLLAR MA DR AS SHIRT.
In first place, the fabrics are carefully selected, and
there are over fifty varieties, all fast colors. They
are designed and executed with the highest sliirt-
making skill. A pail' of detached cuffs with each
shirt. All sizes, 14 to 18—81.00 each.
Women’s $3 White Pique and Linen
Skirts at 95c Each
Sale begins promptly tomorrow at if o’clock.
These skirts have been sold by us for $2, 82.50 and
83 each, and they j were considered good values
prices; but they have outworn their welcome here
and we want them to find other owners within the
next few days; all sizes and lengths. This is one
of the best skirt bargains ever offered. Remember,
05c instead of 82, 82.50 and 83 each.
Special Values Selected From All
Over The Store.
49c for 75c Summer Corsets, made of good
strong net, trimmed with lace and ribbon.
75c for ladies 81 white waists, made of sheet
white lawn, trimmed with tucks and hemstitching
1’
25c for ladies imported fast black Lisle Hose,
Hermsdorf dye, high spliced heels and toes, never
before offered for less than 35c.
35c for men’s 50e Ralbriggan Underwear
shirts and drawers, pearl buttons.
42c for the $1 Screven and Garland drawer?
patent elastic seam, all sizes in stock.
25e for 39e White French Organdy, lull t wo
yards wide and a good quality.
124c for remnants of 25c White India Linens,
40-inches wide.
24e for remnants of 6c White Lawns. There’s
less than 500 yards in the lot.
10c for Indies 124c fast black hose, high spliced
heels and toes.
5c per dozen for the 10c quality pure pearl
shirt buttons.
5c per yard for your choice of a thousand yards
Torchon Lace, value 74c to 20c.
10c for ladies 15c Ribbed Vests, tape neck and
shoulders.
10c per yard for 15c Spring Cottomnles, 1.5
patterns.
10c for 124e l’illow Cases, sizes 45x30, and
made of strong muslin.
43c for 75c ready-made sheets, full size, broad
hems, made oi'Peppercll sheeting.
85e lor $1.25 White Bed Spreads, Marseilles
patterns, full size, hemmed, ready for use.
5c for ladies 10c White Lawn Hemstitched
Handkerchiefs, mrde of white lawn.
19c for ladies’ 50c belts, some good styles,
others not so good.J
A. G. DUNCAN.
us and 117 Forsyth Street, Shaw’s Old Stand Amerlcus. Ga.
u’OLLIERY HORROR
IN PENNSYLVANIA
Seven Men Killed and Others
Entombed Alive.
LITTLE HOPE OF RESCUE
Second Explosion Occurred Just Aftei
a Party of Volunteer* Had Entered
the Burning Mine—They, Too, Ari
Believed to Have Perished.
Port Royal, Pa., Juno 11.—By thi
explosiou of gas in shaft No. 2 of tin
Pittsburg Coal and Coke company’i
mine, about 6 o’clock last night, seven
rncu are supposed to have beeu killed
and DO miners entombed. Smoke rosi
from tho mouth of the shaft in volume)
during the night. Great excitement
prevailed and the entire population oi
the town remained at the mine, eager!?
awaiting some news from those thought
to be either buried under tons of steel
or slowly awaiting either death froic
flames or relief from tho outside, wills
small chance favoring the former.
All the rescuing parties came out oi
the mine this morning. They say that
the black damp makes work impossible
and they have given up hope of finding
any of the mission nliv*.
LonsoliUuttou In Birmingham.
Atlanta, Juuo 12 —Harry M. Atkin
son and practically the same Boston |
financial interests associated with him
iu various Atlanta enterprises have se
cured a large interest in and consoli
dated the Birmingham Railway, Light
and Power company, the Consolidated
Electric Light company and the Bir
mingham Gas company, in the city of
Birmingham. The consolidated com
panies will be known as the Birming
ham Railway, Light and Power com-
pnnv. ami will be capitalized at $10,-
000,000.
A New 5-uuihcru Orator.
Raleigh, June 11.—Governor Ay-
cock iu a speech before the New Eng
land society, at New York, the other
day, made a great sensation. A promi
nent northern correspondent says that
since Henry W. Grady astonished and
delighted the members of the New Eng
land society by a revelation of the
higher gifts of oratory no address has
been delivered iu New York to compare
with it, both iu manner and iu matter,
until the two brief speeches of Governor
Aytock of North Carolina on the occa
sion mentioned.
MURDER OF BERTA JACKSON.
Flowers, the Foster Father, Arrested
on Suspicion.
Atlanta, June 12.—R. S. Flowers,
foster father of the murdered child,
Berta Jackson, was arrested at his homo
near Poplar Spring at 1:80 o’clock this
morning by Sheriff Talley of DeKalb
county. Statements reaching tho ears
of the sheriff that Flowers was waiting
for a good opportunity to leave, together,
it is said, with the evidence before tho
coroner’s jury, resulted in the arrost of
Flowers.
The dark crime, as dark as ever
blotted the criminal records of DeKalb
county, has stirred up the people and
every possible effort will bo made to as
certain who was guilty of the atrocious
crirno upon a defenseless little child.
The body of the child was buried yes
terday morning in a couutry cemetery,
near Decatur. Flowers and his w’ifeaud
a number of their neighbors were iu at
tendance.
The coroner’s jury will meet again
this afternoon at 4 o’clock in the court
house at Decatur.
More evidence will be* given by physi
cians who examined the child's body
and the nature of tue injuries will be
more closely gone iuto.
Dark stains on tho floor, a dark
stained bonnet, a crushed head ami
some tangled statements ure now the
clues upon which the authorities of De
Kalb county, assisted by the Atlanta
detectives, are trying to unravel the
mysterious and brutal murder.
Chicago WoniHii** Club IIun n Hlrtlulny
Tho Chicago Woman’s club lias
passed its quarter century milestone.
The little band of 21 women who
met 25 years ago to found an
organization for “mutual rympath.v
and counsel and united effort toward
the higher civilization of humanity and
general philanthropic and literary
work” has grown far beyond tbe
dreams of its founder, Mrs. Caroline
M. Brown.
It war, iu 1S70 that the first, officers
were named and the first modest cir
cular printed. From the beginning the
club members were determined that
lludr. work should count. The inten
tion has been well carried out. Indeed,
so admirably and thoroughly has the
club grasped every scheme it has un
dertaken to work out that success lias
attended its every movement. The
men of Chicago have long since learned
to capitulate when they discover the
powerful Woman’s club behind any ad
vocacy of a reform. Against the great
moral force represented in the union
of nearly 1,000 women which the club
roster shows today opposition would
be useless.—Chicago Times-Herald.
SURE TO BE LYNCHED.
Bloodhounds Chase a JIan Through
Swamps For Four Days.
Memphis, Juno 12.—J. H. Wright,
pursued by bloodhounds through swamp
and canobrake for four days, has sur
rendered to the Memphis police. He ii
wanted for murdering Albert Brumley
and fatally wounding A. J. Hunt, at
Covington, in Randolph county. He
intended to kill Hunt and a man named
Bloom, but instead killed Brumley, a
bystander.
Wright has made a startling confession
charging that he was at home when the
crime was oommitted; that there was a
conspiracy between himself aud hu
youngest son, James, aged 24, to «w
Hunt and Bloom. A part of the con
spiracy was that himself and son should
engage in a sham fight iu tho presence
of Hunt and Bloom and kill them both.
Later on the son, he says, killed Hunt
and fatally wounded Brumley.
Wright says he fled to avoid being
lynched aud walked all the way to
Memphis. Ho is 84 years of age and it
seems almost certain he will bo lynenea
when roturnod to the scene of the crime.
The son will bo arrested also.
Covington has been wrought up since
tho enmo and the people say they wuj
mete out justice without tho aid oi a
court.
lirlght i'rospects In Sewberry.
Newberry, S. C., April 16.—New*
berry, through Colonel William V. hair,
is furnishing crushed rock by the car
loads to Greenville and Spartanburg; ~
P. Cert well is preparing to set out «
acres of tobacco plants; Robert fccaum*
pert is arranging to put up a roller mu
and be in line with the already success
ful roller mills of the county,
small grain crop is more promising taa
it has been in ten or 12 years, niidia
prospects are bright for a gooa ir
crop. _____
Dies Rather Than Face It.
TVaycross, Ga., Aril It*.—Coroner
Jackson Grimes held au inquest over
the body of Tom Thomas, who diea i
miles south of here, returning a rerth^
of suicide. Thomas was under s-.-,
bond charged with poisoning a 13 (
some months ago. Shortly 4e , ie ’ ’
death Thomas said ho was stcn
death and would not live to appe -
court. He was a brother of Senator
viu Thomas, representative from *
county.
Sew Bank at Bessemer.
KjtlKOHAJi, Ala. June H —
;eus* bank, a new financial eoace-
becn organized at Bessemer. -
3 of incorporation were
aing. The incorporators art
i p. Clay; caj““